What css styles to be applied to make the clickable area of button to the exact shape of the button.Could you please tell me
If you use HTML you have to use a somewhat obsolete technique - Image maps - to get a clickable area that's not in the shape of a square. If you use Flash, you have more options. This reply addresses HTML/XHTML up to version 4, I haven't read the the specs for HTML 5 wich may have more ways of solving this (probably in combination with Javascript).
If I wish to style links in a menu I use an unordered list. You need to use display:block to make the whole list item click-able. I have included example css and html below.
In my stylesheet:
#menu {
width: 800px;
height: 40px;
}
#menu ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#menu li {
display: inline;
margin-right: 10px;
float: left;
background-color: #FC0;
}
#menu a {
text-decoration: none;
font-size: 1.2em;
color: #006;
display:block;
padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px;
}
#menu a:hover,
#menu a:active {
color: #009;
background-color: #F90;
}
In my html:
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li>Home</li>
<li>Blog</li>
<li>Articles</li>
</ul>
</div>
This will give you a horizontal menu of three yellow boxes/buttons which will change to orange on hover. The a is displayed as a block and so the hover affect takes affect when the mouse hovers anywhere within the yellow box, rather than just over the text.
Hope this helps :o)
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I have designed a navigation menu which uses trapeziums instead of rectangles. I have got something working but it doesn't behave properly. I have tried using a negative left margin of -15px to offset the link but this doesn't appear to work.
The following illustration demonstrates what I have working along with that desired. Given the same cursor position "Brokerage" should be highlighted instead of "Services" (with hover or click).
How can I fix this? Is there a better way to achieve this (baring in mind that I want compatibility with IE7+)
Here is the HTML structure of the navigation menu:
<nav>
<ul>
<li>Contact</li>
<li>Brokerage</li>
<li>Services</li>
<li class="first current">Home</li>
</ul>
</nav>
Here is the CSS:
nav ul li {
display: block;
float: right;
margin-left: -30px;
line-height: 69px;
text-align: center;
font-size: 16pt;
background: url(img/nav.png) no-repeat right -69px;
}
nav ul li:hover {
background: url(img/nav.png) no-repeat right -207px;
}
nav ul li.current {
background: url(img/nav.png) no-repeat right 0px;
}
nav ul li.current:hover {
background: url(img/nav.png) no-repeat right -138px;
}
nav ul li.first a {
background: url(img/nav.png) no-repeat left bottom;
}
nav ul li a {
display: block;
float: left;
padding: 0 26pt;
text-decoration: none !important;
color: #4e649f;
}
nav ul li:hover a {
color: #9e4e4e !important;
}
nav ul li.current a {
color: #fff !important;
}
Here is the img/nav.png image, please note that bottom strip of image contains a white triangle that is used to cover start of first navigation item.
^-----^ White triangle here - remainder is transparent (PNG-24)
I think that there are at least three solutions of which two use javascript:
Imagemap + hover event
You could use a transparent imagemap that lies over the navigation and use the href attribute on the area tags. The areas could be trapezoids like your navigation items.
RaphaelJS
You could use RaphaelJS to draw shapes over the navigation and bind to mouseover/click events.
Plain Javascript
You could just calculate the position of the cursor and trigger the appropriate link with plain javascript.
I use the following menu:
<ul id="menu">
<li class="subMenu">
<h2><span>menu item</span></h2>
<div>
<p><span>submenu item</span></p>
</div>
</li></ul>
I have the following css:
ul#menu {
float:right;
height:80px;
color: #FFF;
margin: 0;
padding: 0.8em 0em;
}
ul#menu li {
display: inline;
margin: 0.1em 1em;
position: relative;
}
ul#menu h2,ul#menu h3 {
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}
ul#menu li a {
text-decoration: none;
}
ul#menu li a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu a {
padding: 0 1.2em;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
ul#menu div {
display: none;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu div {
border: 1px solid #fff;
width: 125px;
position: absolute;
top: 2.5em;
left: 30px;
background: #fff;
color: #000;
}
ul#menu li.hovered div {
display: block;
}
ul#menu li.subMenu div a {
text-decoration: none!important;
}
can anybody advise how i can keep menu item hovered when i hover over the submenu item
thank you in advance.
Quick solution in jsFiddle. (See the comments in the CSS to find out what I've changed.)
You are most of the way there already. Replacing the ul#menu li.hovered div selector in your CSS with ul#menu li:hover div is most of the battle; the rest is adjusting the submenu position so that you can actually hover over it without it disappearing. (In the jsFiddle above I've simply used padding instead of offsetting with absolute positioning.)
However, please pay attention to the commenters above! Their observations are entirely correct and germane:
The markup being used is rather heavy and unorthodox. For example, your submenu "items" are paragraphs in a div, but normally I would expect to see just a nested list; also, the spans seem unnecessary, and you don't need the submenu class on the list items when you already have an ID on the parent ul.
Second, they are also correct that there are plenty of great tutorials and examples for this out there, so while rolling your own worthwhile exercise you don't need to do it alone—nor should you! My first introduction was this old A List Apart article, and you can even ignore the whole section about JavaScript/Suckerfix since it's 2011 and most of us are perfectly happy to forget about IE6.
http://www.devinrolsen.com/pure-css-horizontal-menu/
You could use li:hover to keep the contents of the li tag displayed. You could also follow this simple tutorial on creating a pure CSS hover menu.
I have a menu:
<div class="headerMenu">
<ul>
<li>Home <span>Home Page<span></li>
<li>About <span>About My Website<span></li>
<li>Contact <span>Get in touch<span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
My current CSS is as follow:
.headerMenu{
width: 100%;
}
.headerMenu ul{
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
float: left;
}
.headerMenu ul li{
display: inline;
}
.headerMenu ul li a{
float: left;
color: white;
padding-top:25px;
padding-left:50px;
font-size:24pt;
}
.headerMenu ul li a:visited{
color: white;
}
.headerMenu ul li a:hover, .menu ul li .current{
color: #fff;
background: url(../../Content/Images/menu-selector.png) repeat-x; /* 25x10 arrow/*
}
And now for the question:
How can i get the content in the span tag to be below the Main text.
When i hover over the anchor, How do i add the hover image as shown in screen shot
The Mockup i created in Photoshop looks like this:
I know this would be easily achievable by making use of images, but my solution requires that menu to be created dynamically.
1) How can i get the content in the span tag to be below the Main text.
You need to use display: block on the span to have it appear on a new line:
.headerMenu ul li a span {
display: block;
}
2) When i hover over the anchor, How do i add the hover image as shown in screen shot
Try to center the arrow to the top. This might work:
.headerMenu ul li a:hover, .menu ul li .current {
color: #fff;
background: url(../../Content/Images/menu-selector.png) no-repeat center top;
display:block;
/* also make sure that you use display block with correct height
so that you can positionate the arrow on the correct place... */
}
Add the following code for problem 1:
.headerMenu ul li a span {
display: block;
}
This sets the <span> to display as a block level element, therefore occupying the full parent container width by default.
For problem 2, there are multiple ways to do this. However, my suggestion would be to add the array to the <li> and use the :hover pseudo class. Note: that this will only work in IE for 7+.
.menu ul li:hover{
background: url(../../Content/Images/menu-selector.png) repeat-x;
}
See it in action - http://jsfiddle.net/kxqx8/1/ (I changed the colors to help display)
I'm creating a horizontal menu in my website and everything is OK but one thing. I have a link in each <li> and the color is set to white and li has no background, but in hover I want to set li background to white and links text color to black. The problem is that the width of <a> tags is not the same as <li> and when the mouse is over the part that is in <li> but not in <a> both become white.Anchor links can not have width property as far as I know, and I try different type of tricks but no success.Any idea?
#primary-menu ul li {
list-style-type: none;
float: left;
background-image: url('menu-sep.png');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right;
}
#primary-menu li a:hover {
color: black;
}
#primary-menu li:hover {
background-color: white;
color: black;
}
#primary-menu li a {
color: white;
text-decoration: none;
padding-right: 8px;
margin-right: 8px;
width: 100%;
height: 23px;
}
`
Check your <li> styling. They probably have padding. Remove it and the anchors should occupy the entire available space. Also, change the margin on the <a> tag to padding. Padding counts as part of the tag (ie, hovering over the padding makes it trigger the :hover pseudoselector), while margins do not.
as you have written above that should be worked but you are saying that is not working then try by making class refered to only text like.
.liText
{
color:white;
}
.liText:hover
{
color:black;
}
hope this will work.
use class attribute with your tag.
like
<a class="liText"> // for single class
if you want to use two or more classes for one tag then use another class after giving space as i mentioned below.
<a class="firstClass SecClass ThirdClass">
I am trying to create some simple menu links. I tried something like this:
div.menulinkboxaround
{
height: 25px;
}
a.menulinkbox
{
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;
padding-left: 50px;
padding-left: 50px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
background-color: Green;
}
a.menulinkbox:hover
{
background-color: Red;
}
a.menulinkbox:visited
{
background-color: Yellow;
}
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 1</div>
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 2</div>
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 3</div>
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 4</div>
What i am trying to accomplish is to create menu elements that has a touch of style to em, so each link should be inside a div box with a padding 50 px on each side.
When i run this, they get clumped up on top of each other. I don't want to specify a width since the text inside the menu box should determine the size of it automatically.
Ex. (50px+text size+50px)
50px space (just green area) | Sample Text | 50px space (just green area)
Maybe this will help (since divs are block displayed elements by default):
div.menulinkboxaround { height: 25px; float: left; }
Try adding this:
a.menulinkbox
{
display: block;
}
Depending on whether you want this menu vertical or horizontal you may also want to add float: left; to div.menulinkboxaround.
As the previous answers suggest, you could put float:left on the menulinkboxaround.
It is difficult to tell from your description the desired effect, I am assuming you want the menu to be horizontal with 50px either side of the links.
With the code you currently have, the hover state only stretches in one direction, also as you are only specifying :hover it is not really as keyboard friendly as it would be if you specified :focus as well.
Also because you are setting the height in px as you increase the font size the text becomes clipped at the bottom. Not specifying the pseudo selectors on the link may also cause you later problems in Internet Explorer.
You could also tidy up the code a little to reduce the unnecessary classes and improve the semantics of the menu.
For example:
<style type="text/css">
ul.menu {
/* removing the browser defaults for margin padding and bullets */
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
/* Now you have a sensible parent it is a good idea to put the font
family here, I have also added a fallback of sans-serif in the rare
case Helvetica and Verdana are not available on the users computer,
it might be best to set this on the body if you are using this font
site-wide
*/
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
/* To create symetry I am adding 25px to the right and left of the menu,
this will stay green even if the items inside are not
*/
padding: 0 25px;
background-color: green;
/* increacing the lineheight so the background color of the links does
not overflow the green of the menu behind it, for a simple menu like
this it is fine, a more complex or longer links that need to wrap I
suggest changing the method of implementation from display inline to
floating which is a bit more complex
*/
line-height:1.95;
}
/* because all the list items are inside this parent list you can use
the descendant selector to target them rather than adding a separate
class, you are saying all list items inside the unordered list that
has a class of menu
*/
ul.menu li {
/* telling the list items to behave like inline elements so they are
naturally on one line also removint the browser default margin and
padding
*/
display: inline;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul.menu a:link,
ul.menu a:visited,
ul.menu a:hover,
ul.menu a:focus,
ul.menu a:active {
/* you can combine all your padding rules together in the order
Top Right Bottom Left, I remember this like it kinda spells TRouBLe :)
*/
padding: 5px 25px 5px 25px;
background-color: green;
/* setting the color to white because the default link color of blue
is not that visible against green
*/
color: white;
}
/* adding the :focus selector to make this more keyboard accessible */
ul.menu a:hover,
ul.menu a:focus {
background-color: red;
color: black;
}
ul.menu a:visited {
background-color: yellow;
color: black;
}
</style>
</pre>
<ul class="menu">
<!-- Putting these all on one line because we are making
them display:inline so the spaces get counted and there will
be a gap otherwise -->
<li>Link 1</li><li>Link 2</li><li>Link 3</li>
</ul>
I have tested this in recent versions of FF, Opera and Safari, and IE6 IE7 and IE8
<style type="text/css">
ul.menu {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
list-style-type: none;
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 0 25px;
background-color: green;
/* overflow hidden clears the internal floated links and zoom 1
kicks IE into doing the same, I suggest you move the zoom: 1
into an IE stylesheet using conditional comments
*/
overflow: hidden;
zoom: 1;
}
ul.menu li {
display: inline;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
ul.menu a:link,
ul.menu a:visited,
ul.menu a:hover,
ul.menu a:focus,
ul.menu a:active {
padding: 5px 25px 5px 25px;
background-color: green;
color: white;
/* setting the links to float left and giving them display block as
well explicitly, this is so that the vertical padding of 5px gets
applied, inline elements can only have horizontal margin and padding,
and since we are floating them they now take up 0 vertical height in
the document which is why we needed to clear the float on the
surrounding menu
*/
display: block;
float: left;
}
ul.menu a:hover,
ul.menu a:focus {
background-color: red;
color: black;
}
ul.menu a:visited {
background-color: yellow;
color: black;
}
</style>
<ul class="menu">
<li>Link 1</li><li>Link 2</li><li>Link 3</li>
</ul>
This second method is much more reliable, deals with wrapping links nicer and is generally a better solution but a bit harder to explain.
If you didn't want the menu to fill the full width of the screen just as long as the text takes up, regardless of which method you are using above, I suggest you put float: left and clear: both on the ul.menu which should shrink to the width it needs to take up
I hope this helps
sample code below (credit to other answers)
div.menulinkboxaround
{
height: 25px;
float: left;
}
a.menulinkbox
{
font-family: Verdana, Helvetica;
padding-left: 50px;
padding-right: 50px;
padding-bottom: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
background-color: Green;
}
a.menulinkbox:hover
{
background-color: Red;
}
a.menulinkbox:visited
{
background-color: Yellow;
}
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 1</div>
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 2</div>
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 3</div>
<div class="menulinkboxaround">Link 4</div>